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rums

rums is the plural of rum.

Meaning of rum

Noun

rum (countable and uncountable, plural rums)

  1. (uncountable) A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
    • ... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...1639 September 24, John Josselyn, Journal in An Account of Two Voyages to New-England... (1673), p. 24
    1. (countable) A serving of rum.
      • Jake tossed down three rums.
    2. (countable) A kind or brand of rum.
      • Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.
  2. (inexact) A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A strange person or thing.
  4. (obsolete, slang) A country parson.
    • No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn

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What is rums the plural of?
Rums is the plural of rum.

Words near rums in the dictionary

  1. Rumrill
  2. Rumrills
  3. rumrunner
  4. rumrunners
  5. rumrunning
  6. rums
  7. Rumsby
  8. Rumsbys
  9. rumseller
  10. rumsellers
  11. Rumsen

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